I read about all the plant problems people have. Those that have the most problems are the ones that grow indoors. Second, the people that grow in pots outdoors. If you plant outside in the ground there will still be bugs, too hot, too cold, too whatever. Still it's a lot easier and it does allow you to take the weekend off if you want.
RIGHT??? there was a squall yesterday that literally missed my property by a couple miles. It poured torrentially on saint Paul and it stayed dry as a bone anywhere north of there.
I saw the state of your deckboards! Tsk tsk!
Ugh I want to smash hearts all over this. Adorable garden.
Is that not a bird next to the coffee cup?
Chicken
breed is barbu de watermael. They're pretty rare in the US... you aren't really going to find people with these. They're a bantam, very small, 550 grams full grown as hens. This is my favorite hen Jasper with my late rooster Agate.
I just built a deck as covid hit, before construction costs soared. I feel your pain.
Lol, oh, not my pic. Soŕry!
Looks like a bantam golden sebright to me. But it's been a very long time since I had chickens. I've since moved on to ravens
I'm looking forward to her telling us more about those chickens
All good!
Cool I'll check it out
I'm waiting to see how many posts I need to make before that like button shows up, lmao
Similar size to sebrights. Sebrights only come in silver laced or golden laced and the roosters are hen feathered. (My roo was missing his sickles in the nice pictures of him.) I'm not sure there is an English translation for their Belgian name. Watermaalse are bearded with a medium size crest, trifid rose comb, clean legs. A more common Belgian bearded bantam breed is the barbu d'uccle, a larger heavier bodied bantam with vulture feathering on the shanks, single comb, and beard but no crest.Looks like a bantam golden sebright to me. But it's been a very long time since I had chickens. I've since moved on to ravens
Thank you, he was a handsome fellow. I miss having chickens. They are so sweet.
Seven years. It took me a bit to find a breed I really enjoyed, and now that I have it, there is no way I could be more chuffed. I wanted the ultimate pet chicken, and I'm very happy with the watermael. They're like keeping outdoor cats sort of. I am able to leave them with a bucket of clean water and a couple feed buckets and go away for a few weeks.
He was a noisy little butthole and he was lucky to be gorgeous, expensive and the size of a grapefruit. I'm anxious over why he died. I found him dead in the middle of the yard on his back with nothing of note besides a dark purple comb. I didn't autopsy, I cried for a few days and buried him under my crabapple tree.
